1 Corinthians 5:6
Youre reioysinge is not good: knowe ye not that a lytle leve sowreth the whole lompe of dowe.
Tyndale New Testament
In The King James Version
Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 13:33Another similitude sayde he to them. The kyngdome of heven is lyke vnto leve which a woman taketh and hydeth in .iii. peckes of meele tyll all be levended.
Luke 13:21it is lyke leven which a woman toke and hidde in thre busshels of floure tyll all was thorow levended.
1 Corinthians 4:18Some swell as though I wolde come no more at you.
1 Corinthians 15:33Be not deceaved: malicious speakinges corrupte good maners.
2 Timothy 2:17and their wordes shall fret even as doeth a cancre: of whose nombre ys Hymeneos and Philetos
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 5:2-7
A Case of Gross Criminality; Christian Purity. ( a. d. 57.) 1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. 2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. 3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, 4 In the name of… Read the whole commentary →